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I've installed Linux Mint 14 as a dual boot and it works fine exept when I'm trying to shut down the system.Everything closes down except the back ground then nothing happens and I have to press the power button for a couple of seconds to power off the computer.

If I choose Hibernate it automaticly disable wired connection and then the computer goes into Hibernate just fine.

I have tried to manually disable the network and then choose Shut down or in a terminal write "Sudo shutdown now" but gets the same results.

Can someone guide me to solve this so I can shut down my computer just by pressing Shut down?

Sorry, I dit it wrong. Now I wrote sudo with a small s it worked, but unfortunatly I got the same result with that command to: black screen and I need to press power button a couple of seconds to turn of computer:(

This problem has existed since Mint 13 on a small amount of systems, one of mine for instance. Only thing that works for it is to press return a few times, it's as though it hangs at a particular shutdown instruction and pressing return allows it to progress.

seems to shut down the system in its entirety except doesn't turn the physical power off; thus, it needs proper arguments. I have not experimented with the -P option, but there seems to be a difference in activity between that and what I normally use, which is -h. From the man page it looks like -P defines a variable or script to turn the power off when halted. The problem is, you never tell your computer to halt, just what "halt" is.I recommend the following:

Alright, found this fun little solution explaining why some processes will try to hang, but I'll summarize and get to the main things to try.Open up your boot command with (I'm using vi, feel free to use whatever text editor you want):

For each item, try the shutdown, and see if it follows through. It doesn't matter which one works, just leave it after. It's suggested that you start with bios or acpi, see if either of those work first, since usually it's one of those.After the addition of this term, save the file, then run

and let it reconfigure. Once it's done, try shutting down. I might suggest making sure that it ends up being off at some point witch each test, just to be certain that it's actually looking at this line during the boot; so technically, to make sure each test works, you may need to shutdown twice, if that makes sense. You can see if it actually ended up booting with the information with

Hi Mechrawr, once again thanks for your help:)This didn’t work for me, I tried all the options but only “bios” works some of the times.But I think its ok, because if I had "Hibernate" the computer before I can shut it down most of the time.

Ok. This didn't use to happen to my Lenovo T410si laptop, but now it does.

It has been happening for a few days maybe?

I'm running LinuxMint 13 Cinnamon 64-bit. I think a recent update to grub or the distro may have broken my system. Are there any recent updates that would cause my laptop to go through the entire shutdown process, but not actually turn off?

Note: In addition to distro updates, I recently installed MonoDevelop, Gaphor, and Ruby.